Voice from the Ether: and you will eat your fill!
Tempera and Oil Painting
1939 (painted)
1939 (painted)
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It seems here that Klee was portraying a German listening to the propaganda of his leaders in 1939 with promises of wealth, propaganda and Lebensraum. Short hair, staring eyes and a mouth dripping with saliva are the sitter's unpleasing characteristics.
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| Materials and techniques | Tempera and oil on brown wrapping paper |
| Brief description | Painting, Voice from the Ether: and you will eat your fill!, by Paul Klee, oil and tempera on brown wrapping paper, 1939. |
| Physical description | It seems here that Klee was portraying a German listening to the propaganda of his leaders in 1939 with promises of wealth, propaganda and Lebensraum. Short hair, staring eyes and a mouth dripping with saliva are the sitter's unpleasing characteristics. |
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| Object history | Purchased, 1965 |
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| Accession number | P.4-1965 |
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| Record created | December 15, 1999 |
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